Word: tailes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Humph." The visiting cousin twitched his tail nervously and shifted his position to get a better view. "Always knew it was a lot of nonsense anyway...
...Commerce Weekly, Dr. Kreutzer put two electrodes in the water of Lake Constance, passed a current between them, and observed (as had been observed before) that fish in such a spot tend to head toward the positive electrode. He also observed that an increase in the current made their tails wiggle. This gave him his big idea. When a fish's tail wiggles back & forth, the fish is swimming. Why not force him, by electricity, to wiggle into...
...when one of these postcard sloops came shipping up astern, pulled out to pass, and then cut under our bow. We all politely stared at its four man crew. They stared right back, and one of them scrambled into his cabin. He promptly reappeared holding an enormous red swallow-tail flat, which he bont onto a halliard and ran up to the top of his mast. After a few minutes he pulled it down again and sailed off. We were very concerned about the whole incident, and asked the first Dutch harbormaster we ran into what was coming...
...tail of the announcement of the Russian bomb, the Harvard branch of the American Veterans Committee and the World Federalists tonight bring Cord Meyer Jr. to Harvard to examine the "Consequences of Soviet Atom Bomb Production...
...many encore numbers, the last ones resulting from shouted requests, included most of the old favorites such as "Foggy Foggy Dew," "The Blue Tail Fly," and so forth. If there weren't rules against giving a concert on the Lord's Day in this state, I am sure the recital would have lasted into the morning. Burl Ives and the audience were enjoying themselves that much...